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First of all, I think your idea is wonderful! When I was looking for a religious picture I found the sites Holy Needle & Salt and Pepper seemed to have the largest selection, but I don't recall seeing many saints and their patterns do not compare to Meredith's. Good luck!

Sorry, to hear this, chemotherapie is not a very easy treatment, wish her all the best!

Have tried a lot of cross stitch sites, but couln't find
Saint Agatha.
Maybe Meredith can help and as written in the new newsletter, people often ask for details of a picture, so maybe that's an idea???

Alanna, I just checked out a site I know that does iconic charts, Solaria Gallery, and sadly, Stoyanka does not have St. Agatha charted that I could find. But, I bet she might take your suggestion, and I bet her design would be gorgeous! Here is a link to her site, to the About Her page:
http://www.solaria-gallery.com/gobelins/index.html

I don't see a direct e-mail contact for her, but you might get a response in her guest book. I also think she's a member of one of my groups - I could possibly do a shout-out for her if you need me to

And so sorry to hear that your family is going through this struggle. Good healing vibes going out to your and yours!

So sorry to hear about your sister-in-law! I will certainly look into the possibility of a chart of St. Agatha. I think the picture you included the link of will be too small - maybe not, or maybe I can find something else.

Wow, thank you all of you for your support! Rife, you found some wonderful alternative images and Meredith, I'm so grateful that you're considering charting an image of Saint Agatha. She's very special, and I think as the patron saint of breast cancer sufferers, there are going to be quite a few people out there who sadly will be praying to her. i'll definitely check out sloaria as well, Rife. thank you.

Voila, I know that's a lot, but you see, there are artworks of her out there, and we know now that there are as yet no charted designs of her for cross stitch so we're in open territory! Most of these pieces are now also so old that copywrite shouldn't be a problem.

Many thanks again, everyone and hopefully we'll find a way to Saint Aggy yet.

Saw all the pictures and some are not very easy to look at, but that's my opinion.
The one with Saint Agatha in the stained glass window is quite different, which may show all these women gone through this ordeal and are going through this that there is light as well.
Hope you understand what I mean ?!

I agree with Fenny, some of these pictures are very gruesome. I do like the window (and thanks for the links). I also found rifestitch's 2nd one, by Carini (http://tinyurl.com/5cxado)
She has her breasts on a plate but there's no blood. This type of picture is probably what led to her also being the patron saint of bakers and bellringers - people not being quite sure what they were looking at (bells? loaves?)

I could do kind of a posterish pattern from the icon -- I had a quick cut and it wasn't too bad. I like the colors in the window better. It would probably come out posterish too but that's maybe to be expected with stained glass. (Anything small is going to come out posterish.) The Carini (after clicking the enlarge button) is probably big enough to do a pattern closer to our usual quality. The Caravaggio would work too but is awfully dark (in color, not so much in mood).

The dilemma I have, and please tell me what you think, is that the window and the icon could really be anybody (except they're labeled), but the ones that are clearly St. Agatha range from surreal to horrific. Obviously the goal is to help your sister-in-law's mental state, not gross her out, and I'm not much in favor of the gruesome ones, but what about the breasts-on-a-plate category? Is that still too much?